A Republic is a form of Democracy- It's called a Democratic Republic. Only fucktards make a point of disputing that Republics aren't Democracies when the author's point (that the government represents the people) is clear, and the fact that it's Socialist has no relation to either. You can have Socialist Democratic Republics, Socialist Direct Democracies, or whatever else one wants.
That hipster dude on MS's "Expression" page looks like he's being arrested and preparing to be handcuffed. Fitting, I guess- "Shackle your creative possibilities!" What would you expect from a company who gives their products such creative names as "Graphic Designer", "Interactive Designer", and "Web Designer"...
Right- Concentration is a skill that can be learned by anyone at any age. It is just a muscle to be exercised (or to put it more accurately, a neural pathway that must be reinforced). Daily meditation practice can work wonders with regard to increasing one's attention span. A lot of people get put off by the idea because they think it has to involve religious ideas that conflict with their religion of choice (or lack thereof), but it doesn't. Buddhism practiced by many as more of an exercise than a religion- Buddhist temples are just set up to give people a place to practice and learn, and to pay homage to the Buddha who came up with the practice.
All you do is spend 20-30+ minutes being absolutely still (although walking meditation is also doable) and focusing on your breath. You don't try to control your breath, just let your body do its own thing. A quiet place helps, but waiting for absolute silence will keep you waiting forever, and any sounds or other distractions are just obstacles to be overcome. Whenever your mind starts to wander, you don't quit, freak out or beat yourself up about it, you just gently guide it back to your breath. After practicing this for a while, your mind will start to wander less and less, and likewise you get distracted less in your normal activities as well.
The new mac mice aren't much better- They're still super-flat, which gets mighty uncomfortable after extended use compared to a hand-filling logitech mouse. They don't have right buttons or scroll wheels -except for the mighty mouse, which opts for that weird ball thingie that doesn't give you any sort of feedback (like the little 'clicks' you get when you roll a scroll wheel) and strange sense-o-matic right clicking action. They don't have forward/back buttons, and the mighty mouse puts buttons right on the points you would use to pick up the mouse when doing an extended drag. Don't get me started on that smooth acrylic it's made out of, either. All-in-all, Apple mice are CRAP-ola.
It wouldn't surprise me if this flops, but I'm not so certain the situation is as dire as you paint it. These devices are different for a couple reasons.
1)PDA's and phones don't run normal Windows software. Sure, there's Pocket Excel and Pocket Word, but they're hardly equivalent to their full-scale brethren. Opening any moderately complex Word document in Pocket Word will chop it up beyond any hope of usability. The same goes for web browsing- even with Opera Mobile, surfing the web on a Pocket PC or phone is simply NOT FUN. There just aren't enough pixels there to render everything properly, and no magic reformatting algorithm is going to work perfectly with every site. 2)This is a lot more portable than a notebook or tablet PC, but powerful enough to do the things most users do with their notebooks/tablets. Tablets aren't bad, but are still a bit bulky for casual use. (On the plus side, they can have much beefier hardware- my Toshiba m400 with 2GHz Core Duo processor, 2GB RAM, and 120GB HD is great for working on huge Photoshop files while riding on the bus! [okay, so I just wrote that to brag;-P ])
It may be too small for a pocket, but it's the perfect size for a purse. I can see female executives keeping one of these in their purse because, unlike a blackberry, they can run the Outlook they're used to and view Word attachments and PowerPoint slides.
Doesn't subscription simply mean something that is purchased on contract? The word literally means "signed below". I don't see anything that implies property there. One subscribes to cable, or to a DSL (digital subscriber line) connection, but one can't reasonably argue that they OWN all the content that came across the cable while they subscribed.
I don't see what's so great about keeping TV shows anyway. I usually delete stuff from the DVR immediately after I watch it. I don't suppose I could go to iTunes and re-download an episode that I already paid for if I've deleted it from my computer but have decided that I want to watch it again. But this idea that it's this one item that I paid for would lead people to want to save, save, save every file they download. This becomes like my OCD dad, who insists on recording every show from the DVR to DVD, and inevitably gets behind and fills up the DVR. Do we all need to be archivists?
Video is the one place where the Napster all-you-can-eat subscription model actually makes sense. How many of us would happily pay a flat monthly fee to get unfettered access to all of Comedy Central's archives in full quality, commercial-free, on-demand? What should something like that cost? I'd say something like $15-20/mo would be fair. If they leave the commercials in, I can't see how it should cost more than $1-2/mo, if anything at all. Consider what you pay for cable and what tiny fraction of that actually goes to Viacom, or whomever owns Comedy Central, as part of the package deal that your cable company gets.
I think we'll really see this sort of thing once this upcoming generation of processors becomes more commonplace. We all bitch and moan about DRM and Trusted Computing, but those technologies will allow content creators to feel secure enough about distributing content over the internet to actually take advantage of it. I imagine a world where the cable company is just in charge of bringing the internet to your door and all the TV networks have the entirety of their content available on-demand. All this business with millions of people storing copies of the same content locally is just redundant and wasteful.
So you're not allowed a cellphone in your workplace, I would assume due to productivity and security concerns, but you're allowed a PDA from which you can post on Slashdot!? Hmm....
Even if it's old news it would be good to have it documented online. Put the videos on google video and write a summary of what happened in the Wikipedia. You never know when some misguided politicians will try to pull similar stunts elsewhere, and your video evidence and written document of your experience might be helpful for those being harassed to show what kind of stuff could go on if those politicians go on unabated. If those people don't happen to know that your video is at Leather Tongue in SF, or can't get to SF, or Leather Tongue goes out of business, how will they ever get it?
There were plenty of cameras. I still have tapes. I could show you one where they slam this cute little 5'1" girl down onto the pavement and stand on her back while cuffing her hands behind her, then nearly dislocating her shoulders dragging her off by the cuffs. Fun stuff, but oddly none of the monied interests that own the media had any desire to show those videos.
This is what we have the internet for! Put those videos up somewhere and then post links to them everywhere you can think of. If you're not making the news yourself, you're relegating it to whomever else has a vested interest in making the news. "The media wasn't interested" is no longer an excuse.
This resistance means that the prior amount of kinetic energy must be absorbed at some point in the mug
IANAMEoP (Mech Engr or Physicist), but couldn't the mug be designed to deflect its downward momentum horizontally upon impact (i.e., rolling)? That's usually what stuntmen do when they jump out of windows, is it not?
So they took a computer with a big Cintiq and mounted it in an ugly-ass coffee table. Big deal. When did HP become casemodders? It doesn't even allow multi-user input, like one of these.
Coffee tables are for setting coffee, books, and maybe a board game on. You're not going to want to spend any significant amount of time hunched over one, even if it's for fun multi-user stuff. A normal-height table would be a lot better.
Danish humor and American humor are not too different. Non-westerners just don't get it. I think Stephen Colbert did a pretty good job attempting to explain it to the Muslim world. Somebody really needs to translate that video and distribute it throughout the Arab world...
-- and there are the tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis killed by Americans, very many of whom were women, children, or simply people who were trying to mind their own business when an American bomb went off in their vicinity.
It wasn't just Mazda and Mercedes. Everyone was looking into Wankels in the early 70's- in 1973 GM even had a concept that looked like a 4-rotor Corvette. Then the oil crisis hit, and the Wankel's lower than average mileage pretty much ended all experimentation with the design. Their emissions at the time were less than stellar as well. Mazda has continued development since, and they've made great strides in improving the mileage and emissions, but those problems are still associated with the design in the average Joe's mind (if they even know about it). It's a shame, because there are a lot of advantages to the design- less moving parts, less vibration and higher RPMs due to the lack of reciprocation. My dad tells me that when he was looking at RX-7's back in 79 when they first came out, the salesman made a demonstration of putting the car in neutral and flooring the engine for a couple minutes. Not something most people care to do with their piston engines...
I agree with your post- newegg is overrated, although I always enjoy peeking behind the scenes of a large operation like that. Just an FYI- the word is definitely. Consider that the word is a modified version of the word "definite", which means to establish the bounds of something (as in the edges are finite). Just a heads up, since bad spelling can cost you all sorts of things in life;)
That nobody ELSE uses it does not imply that it does not get used. I think it's safe to say that the organ which you imply gets used quite often by most/.ers...
My handwriting has improved since I started using my Palm Pilot more
Have you considered that this might be due to your Palm Pilot requiring significantly more fine motor control to be usable than ordinary writing requires? Writing the way the OS demands you to -and doing it in that little box- requires a lot more precision than being able to write the way you want to anywhere on the screen.
Other than a full license to Graffiti, there is little for Palm to offer.
Graffiti isn't worth crap. It's left over from the time of the first Palm Pilot, when the devices didn't have the processing power to handle "real" handwriting recognition. We no longer suffer from that limitation- the handwriting recognition on PocketPC's, using ordinary handwriting, is remarkably usable. Nobody wants to learn some archaic scribbles in order to input data. It has worked for Palm because people were willing to put up with it for the first devices because they were so revolutionary, and now that they've learned it it's not a problem. I wouldn't expect Apple to release a product that required users to learn a whole new way of writing- it's no longer necessary, and it's just not their style.
Slashdot Mirror
FlyAKiteOSX?
...and then I installed FlyAKiteOSX. Now I'm really confused :(
Then, kick a comparably-sized human male in the crotch.
I tried, but I couldn't find any human males with such gigantic heads...
Why capitalize the second one?
Because, as a rule, you're supposed to capitalize the names of countries, nationalities, and specific languages.
A Republic is a form of Democracy- It's called a Democratic Republic. Only fucktards make a point of disputing that Republics aren't Democracies when the author's point (that the government represents the people) is clear, and the fact that it's Socialist has no relation to either. You can have Socialist Democratic Republics, Socialist Direct Democracies, or whatever else one wants.
See ? Being French is advantageous. Anytime someone tries to write something in french on /. you can be sure to find an error.
/. you can be sure to find an error.
Dude, that's nothing- anytime someone tries to write something in English on
(For example, you didn't capitalize the second French!)
That hipster dude on MS's "Expression" page looks like he's being arrested and preparing to be handcuffed. Fitting, I guess- "Shackle your creative possibilities!" What would you expect from a company who gives their products such creative names as "Graphic Designer", "Interactive Designer", and "Web Designer"...
Right- Concentration is a skill that can be learned by anyone at any age. It is just a muscle to be exercised (or to put it more accurately, a neural pathway that must be reinforced). Daily meditation practice can work wonders with regard to increasing one's attention span. A lot of people get put off by the idea because they think it has to involve religious ideas that conflict with their religion of choice (or lack thereof), but it doesn't. Buddhism practiced by many as more of an exercise than a religion- Buddhist temples are just set up to give people a place to practice and learn, and to pay homage to the Buddha who came up with the practice.
All you do is spend 20-30+ minutes being absolutely still (although walking meditation is also doable) and focusing on your breath. You don't try to control your breath, just let your body do its own thing. A quiet place helps, but waiting for absolute silence will keep you waiting forever, and any sounds or other distractions are just obstacles to be overcome. Whenever your mind starts to wander, you don't quit, freak out or beat yourself up about it, you just gently guide it back to your breath. After practicing this for a while, your mind will start to wander less and less, and likewise you get distracted less in your normal activities as well.
The new mac mice aren't much better- They're still super-flat, which gets mighty uncomfortable after extended use compared to a hand-filling logitech mouse. They don't have right buttons or scroll wheels -except for the mighty mouse, which opts for that weird ball thingie that doesn't give you any sort of feedback (like the little 'clicks' you get when you roll a scroll wheel) and strange sense-o-matic right clicking action. They don't have forward/back buttons, and the mighty mouse puts buttons right on the points you would use to pick up the mouse when doing an extended drag. Don't get me started on that smooth acrylic it's made out of, either. All-in-all, Apple mice are CRAP-ola.
It wouldn't surprise me if this flops, but I'm not so certain the situation is as dire as you paint it. These devices are different for a couple reasons.
;-P ])
1)PDA's and phones don't run normal Windows software. Sure, there's Pocket Excel and Pocket Word, but they're hardly equivalent to their full-scale brethren. Opening any moderately complex Word document in Pocket Word will chop it up beyond any hope of usability. The same goes for web browsing- even with Opera Mobile, surfing the web on a Pocket PC or phone is simply NOT FUN. There just aren't enough pixels there to render everything properly, and no magic reformatting algorithm is going to work perfectly with every site.
2)This is a lot more portable than a notebook or tablet PC, but powerful enough to do the things most users do with their notebooks/tablets. Tablets aren't bad, but are still a bit bulky for casual use. (On the plus side, they can have much beefier hardware- my Toshiba m400 with 2GHz Core Duo processor, 2GB RAM, and 120GB HD is great for working on huge Photoshop files while riding on the bus! [okay, so I just wrote that to brag
It may be too small for a pocket, but it's the perfect size for a purse. I can see female executives keeping one of these in their purse because, unlike a blackberry, they can run the Outlook they're used to and view Word attachments and PowerPoint slides.
Doesn't subscription simply mean something that is purchased on contract? The word literally means "signed below". I don't see anything that implies property there. One subscribes to cable, or to a DSL (digital subscriber line) connection, but one can't reasonably argue that they OWN all the content that came across the cable while they subscribed.
I don't see what's so great about keeping TV shows anyway. I usually delete stuff from the DVR immediately after I watch it. I don't suppose I could go to iTunes and re-download an episode that I already paid for if I've deleted it from my computer but have decided that I want to watch it again. But this idea that it's this one item that I paid for would lead people to want to save, save, save every file they download. This becomes like my OCD dad, who insists on recording every show from the DVR to DVD, and inevitably gets behind and fills up the DVR. Do we all need to be archivists?
Video is the one place where the Napster all-you-can-eat subscription model actually makes sense. How many of us would happily pay a flat monthly fee to get unfettered access to all of Comedy Central's archives in full quality, commercial-free, on-demand? What should something like that cost? I'd say something like $15-20/mo would be fair. If they leave the commercials in, I can't see how it should cost more than $1-2/mo, if anything at all. Consider what you pay for cable and what tiny fraction of that actually goes to Viacom, or whomever owns Comedy Central, as part of the package deal that your cable company gets.
I think we'll really see this sort of thing once this upcoming generation of processors becomes more commonplace. We all bitch and moan about DRM and Trusted Computing, but those technologies will allow content creators to feel secure enough about distributing content over the internet to actually take advantage of it. I imagine a world where the cable company is just in charge of bringing the internet to your door and all the TV networks have the entirety of their content available on-demand. All this business with millions of people storing copies of the same content locally is just redundant and wasteful.
but I'd go nuts trying to download the Daily Show... Why? Because I'd have to find it every day.
Unless you learned how to use uTorrent with miniRSS...
So you're not allowed a cellphone in your workplace, I would assume due to productivity and security concerns, but you're allowed a PDA from which you can post on Slashdot!? Hmm....
Even if it's old news it would be good to have it documented online. Put the videos on google video and write a summary of what happened in the Wikipedia. You never know when some misguided politicians will try to pull similar stunts elsewhere, and your video evidence and written document of your experience might be helpful for those being harassed to show what kind of stuff could go on if those politicians go on unabated. If those people don't happen to know that your video is at Leather Tongue in SF, or can't get to SF, or Leather Tongue goes out of business, how will they ever get it?
There were plenty of cameras. I still have tapes. I could show you one where they slam this cute little 5'1" girl down onto the pavement and stand on her back while cuffing her hands behind her, then nearly dislocating her shoulders dragging her off by the cuffs. Fun stuff, but oddly none of the monied interests that own the media had any desire to show those videos.
This is what we have the internet for! Put those videos up somewhere and then post links to them everywhere you can think of. If you're not making the news yourself, you're relegating it to whomever else has a vested interest in making the news. "The media wasn't interested" is no longer an excuse.
This resistance means that the prior amount of kinetic energy must be absorbed at some point in the mug
IANAMEoP (Mech Engr or Physicist), but couldn't the mug be designed to deflect its downward momentum horizontally upon impact (i.e., rolling)? That's usually what stuntmen do when they jump out of windows, is it not?
So they took a computer with a big Cintiq and mounted it in an ugly-ass coffee table. Big deal. When did HP become casemodders? It doesn't even allow multi-user input, like one of these.
Coffee tables are for setting coffee, books, and maybe a board game on. You're not going to want to spend any significant amount of time hunched over one, even if it's for fun multi-user stuff. A normal-height table would be a lot better.
Danish humor and American humor are not too different. Non-westerners just don't get it. I think Stephen Colbert did a pretty good job attempting to explain it to the Muslim world. Somebody really needs to translate that video and distribute it throughout the Arab world...
Did you miss this part?
-- and there are the tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis killed by Americans, very many of whom were women, children, or simply people who were trying to mind their own business when an American bomb went off in their vicinity.
It wasn't just Mazda and Mercedes. Everyone was looking into Wankels in the early 70's- in 1973 GM even had a concept that looked like a 4-rotor Corvette. Then the oil crisis hit, and the Wankel's lower than average mileage pretty much ended all experimentation with the design. Their emissions at the time were less than stellar as well. Mazda has continued development since, and they've made great strides in improving the mileage and emissions, but those problems are still associated with the design in the average Joe's mind (if they even know about it). It's a shame, because there are a lot of advantages to the design- less moving parts, less vibration and higher RPMs due to the lack of reciprocation. My dad tells me that when he was looking at RX-7's back in 79 when they first came out, the salesman made a demonstration of putting the car in neutral and flooring the engine for a couple minutes. Not something most people care to do with their piston engines...
I definately do not care
;)
I agree with your post- newegg is overrated, although I always enjoy peeking behind the scenes of a large operation like that. Just an FYI- the word is definitely. Consider that the word is a modified version of the word "definite", which means to establish the bounds of something (as in the edges are finite). Just a heads up, since bad spelling can cost you all sorts of things in life
That nobody ELSE uses it does not imply that it does not get used. I think it's safe to say that the organ which you imply gets used quite often by most /.ers...
My handwriting has improved since I started using my Palm Pilot more
Have you considered that this might be due to your Palm Pilot requiring significantly more fine motor control to be usable than ordinary writing requires? Writing the way the OS demands you to -and doing it in that little box- requires a lot more precision than being able to write the way you want to anywhere on the screen.
Other than a full license to Graffiti, there is little for Palm to offer.
Graffiti isn't worth crap. It's left over from the time of the first Palm Pilot, when the devices didn't have the processing power to handle "real" handwriting recognition. We no longer suffer from that limitation- the handwriting recognition on PocketPC's, using ordinary handwriting, is remarkably usable. Nobody wants to learn some archaic scribbles in order to input data. It has worked for Palm because people were willing to put up with it for the first devices because they were so revolutionary, and now that they've learned it it's not a problem. I wouldn't expect Apple to release a product that required users to learn a whole new way of writing- it's no longer necessary, and it's just not their style.
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